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While highly unrealistic, I enjoyed Space Battleship Yamato a lot, when I was a kid. I knew this anime as Star Blazers (the American animated television series adaptation) where the spaceship was renamed Argo. Star Blazers was a fun anime, featuring epic space battles and voyages into the unknown, and I loved the opening and closing themes.

After so many years, the show is still remembered by fans.
This model ship is impressive:

There are also modern games featuring Yamato, with some nice CGI:

And now there are awesome news for the fans of the show: Space Battleship Yamato is coming back as a live action movie, based on the original series. It is set to be released in Japan on December 1, 2010, but a trailer is already available: